sauver

Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus.

In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.

• IPA^(key): /so.ve/

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sauver

1. to save, rescue; to protect
2. (computing) to save

   Synonym: sauvegarder

3. (pronominal) to escape, run away
4. (North America) to save (conserve, prevent the wasting of)

   Synonyms: économiser, préserver

   Ça réduit le gaspillage et sauve de l’argent. ― It reduces waste and saves money.

• “sauver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• saveur

• sauwer

From Old High German sūbar, from Latin sobrius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ̯vɐ/

sauver (comparative sauvrer, superlative sauvrest)

1. clean

   Sin dein Henn sauver?

   Are your hands clean?

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

sauver

1. Alternative form of saveour

• saûver (Jersey)

From Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvō, salvāre (“save”), from Latin salvus.

sauver

1. (Jersey) to save
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 535:

     Si tu vois le soleil le jour de la Chandeleur, sauve le foin, car tu en auras besoin.

     If you see the sun on Candlemas Day, save your hay for you will want it.

• salvar (Oaths of Strasbourg)
• salver

From Late Latin salvāre, from Latin salvus.

• IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈveːɾ/

sauver

1. to save (remove from danger)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• salvaige
• sauvement

• Middle French: saulver
  • French: sauver
• Norman: sauver (Jersey)
• → Middle English: saven
  • English: save
  • Geordie English: syev
  • Scots: safe, sauf